Thursday, May 17, 2018

Mueller will not indict Trump...

"Was that a Russian I  just saw over there?"
"They (the special counsel's office) acknowledge the fact that they can't indict us," Giuliani told NBC News on Wednesday, indicating that the information had been conveyed to Trump's lawyers. "They know they don't have that power. So their function is to write a report. We would like it to be the fairest report possible. But even if it isn't, we're prepared to rebut it in great detail, so we'd like them to do it."
So this is sort of the double edge sword here. If you are defender of Robert Mueller, you are likely making the argument that he is a straight shooter, someone who works by the book, and someone with the integrity that we should all respect.

But if that is the case, then Robert Mueller actually has to follow the rules. You cannot argue that he is by the book, while simultaneously arguing that he should ignore the Justice department and special counsel guidelines.

This means that Robert Mueller cannot indict a sitting President. This also means that whatever report he writes will be a non-public report written to the Department of Justice. The rules govern that it is not up to him to hold a James Comey style press conference to divulge his findings and recommendations, unless specifically told to do so by the acting Attorney General. He certainly would not be writing a book, or doing the media circuit, such as what we see James Comey doing.

There is no actual law that even suggests that any of his findings would be required to be released (although nearly everyone expects that they will be).  By the laws of Special Counsel, any report release or press conferences or public statement and pretty much everything else falls under the authority of the Justice Department. Unless of course he wrote everything else down in his own private diary, which by Comey precedent would allow him to divulge any of his actions as special counsel as personal recollection.

Btw: A little birdy told me that the plan is to let Mueller finish his probe, fire Ron Rosenstein, then have the new acting Attorney General release a highly "redacted" report, in typical modern day DOJ fashion, all while putting a virtual gag order on Mueller. Then have the new acting AG declare that the DOJ will not be extorted if asked for the full unredacted version!

May we live in interesting times!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Remember, The Lost Years Prez knew everything that happened. So now that we learned BlackBerry used the US Intelligence and Top Law Enforcement agencies to spy and attempted coup on this President.

Anonymous said...

WP is having financial problems.

Commonsense said...

This may actually shut down quicker than we can imagine as the discovery of FBI spying on the Trump campaign calls the credibility of the investigation into question.

Yes, sovereign immunity would prevent Trump from being indicted while in office.

But it doesn't protect anybody else from being indicted including his own children.

A fact Giuliani didn't mention.

.James said...

Summer Zervos' defamation suit against Trump may proceed
VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS 1 hr ago

Summer Zervos has alleged that Trump defamed her on the campaign trail after she publicly claimed that he groped her in 2007.

A one-time “Apprentice” contestant’s defamation case against President Trump can move forward, a New York state appeals court decided Thursday.
President Trump in April filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court maintaining that the Constitution protected him from a lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos, who claims Trump made unwanted sexual advances on her.

“Now, upon reading and filing the papers with respect to the motion, and due deliberation having been had thereon, it is ordered that the motion is denied,” the Appellate Division said in its four-sentence ruling.
Zervos has alleged that Trump defamed her on the campaign trail after she publicly claimed that he groped her in 2007.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter rejected Trump’s argument to toss Zervos’ suit, which was rooted in claims of presidential immunity.
Mariann Wang, who represents Zervos, said "We look forward to proving Ms. Zervos’s claim that Defendant lied when he maliciously attacked her for reporting his sexually abusive behavior."
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A President is not above the law.

caliphate4vr said...

WP is having financial problems.

Please stop with that, it's ridiculous

James said...

True. But not as ridiculous as you calling me a pederast.

Teresa Dulyea-Parker said...

James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.